By Guyson Nanagayi – Lusaka – AFP- Zambian government has relocated more than 1 500 DRC refugees back to their country after the closure of a camp, the United Nations refugee agency said on Wednesday. “A total of 1 555 Congolese refuges have been relocated from Mwange and Kala to Maheba in the Northwestern province,” UNHCR programme officer Robert Taban said in a statement. This is the final year of a voluntary repatriation programme launched in 2007 to encourage Congolese refugees in Zambia to return to the DRC. So far 40 000 of them have heeded the call according to... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Thursday, September 30th 2010 |
By Guyson Nanagayi – LUSAKA (AFP) – Zambian government is planning to close two camps for refugees from neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo over the next month which holds over 40,000 people , UN refugee agency said Thursday. Kala camp in north Zambia is scheduled to close on Tuesday while the nearby Mwange camp would be closed by the end of October, the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a statement. “A total of 40,000 Congolese refugees have been repatriated from Zambia since 2007,” UNHCR official Phillipe Creppy said. “UNHCR and other partners feel the milestone has been... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Friday, September 24th 2010 |
NAWA MUTUMWENO – Zambia has emerged as Africa’s largest exporter of honey and bee products into the European Union (EU) and the United States of America (USA) with supply to these markets forecasted at 1 000 tonnes by the close of 2010. According to Agri-Business Forum (ABF) executive secretary Felix Chizhuka, the country is destined to expand its honey industry five-fold in the next five years. He was speaking at the launch of a publicity campaign for the second Africa Apiculture Exposition (dubbed ApiExpo Africa 2010) at Taj Pamodzi Hotel in Lusaka on Tuesday, August 31, 2010. The second expo... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, September 8th 2010 |
By Nawa Mutumweno (Zambia) – It boggles the mind to note that one could be in Zambia but would end up flying, eating, banking and shopping South African and then retire to a South African hotel to watch South African television. This brings into sharp focus how deep inroads the African economic giant has made into the affairs of its neighbors and beyond. The collapse of apartheid in 1994 opened up South Africa to the rest of the world. It also opened the rest of Africa to South Africa. Apart from the rise in exports of goods to other African... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, September 8th 2010 |
Maamba Collieries Limited (MCL) has acquired a new processing plant that is scheduled to be mounted in three months’ time. The firm is jointly owned by Nava Bharat Ferro Alloys Limited (NBFA) and the Zambian government. MCL has announced that it has secured $100 million for its new thermal power plant that is expected to contribute 300 megawatts of electricity to the national grid. According to MCL chief executive officer Kalunga Mumba, another $108 million will be spent on building a new processing plant to replace the old one that had become obsolete. “The initial idea was to revamp production... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, September 7th 2010 |
